Broadcom Announces Low Cost Digital Broadcast Satellite Chip Targeted at the Entry-level Set-Top Box Market

Broadcom Announces Low Cost Digital Broadcast Satellite Chip Targeted at the Entry-level Set-Top Box Market

Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor solutions enabling broadband communications, today announced a highly integrated digital broadcast satellite (DBS) decoder chip that enables system manufacturers to lower their development costs, allowing them to provide more competitive and cost-effective DBS set-top boxes for receiving basic digital program services.

Industry's First Single-Chip Solution Integrates All of the Required System Features, Including the Tuner, for Low Cost, Entry-Level DBS Set-Top Boxes

The Broadcom® BCM7312 DBS system-on-a-chip integrates all of the required features and functionality of an entry-level DBS set-top box at significantly reduced costs by simplifying the set-top box design through reduced part counts. It also lowers power requirements and enables faster manufacturing times.

“With the BCM7312, we focused our engineering expertise on reducing the set-top box system cost for the U.S. market and international markets such as Europe, Korea, India and China,” said Brian Sprague, Broadcom's Senior Director of Marketing, Set-top Box and Digital TV Products. “The BCM7312 is Broadcom's first product to address the high-volume entry-level DBS set-top box market and sets a new standard of technology achievement in integration and cost reduction.”